Hi everyone
It’s six months since we relaunched the Global Short Story Competition and we thought you would like some ‘edited highlights’, so here goes.
A new era
The Global Short Story Competition unveiled its new look and new website in February.
The competition, which began five and a half years ago and runs monthly with a £100 first prize and a £25 highly commended payment, is run by Inscribe Media Limited, of Darlington, County Durham in North East England.
Entries come from all over the world and the judge is North East author Fiona Cooper. Approaching £10,000 has already been paid out to winners.
You can find more and enter the competition through www.inscribemedia.co.uk
Free stuff
There’s loads of free hints on writing at our blog at www.inscribemedia.co.uk and you can check out our free writers’ toolbox, which can be downloaded off the home page at http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/
Free poetry competition
Time is running out to enter our free poetry competition. The challenge is a poem that stirs emotions in no more than ten lines. £50 first prize, closing date October 18, 2013. All entries to be posted at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inscribemedia/183385438479538
Competition winners
We have announced plenty of winning or commended/shortlisted writers over recent months (winning stories are posted on the site). They were (from fourteen countries):
July
The £100 first place prize went to Ruth Simpson, for Running Away. Our highly commended runner up was Temptin’ Bison by Dianne Bown-Wilson, of Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England, who wins £25.
The writers on the shortlist were:
Mike Woodhouse, Mittagong, Australia
Elaine Desmond, Mallow, Co Cork, Ireland
Vicky Daddo, Hazelwood South, Victoria, Australia
Jenny Lippmann, Stockport, England
Laura Roberts
June
The £100 first place prize went to a writer from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia. The story was Next Time Do It Properly by Margaret Renshaw. The £25 highly commended prize went to Mandy Huggins, of Cleckheaton in England, for The View Through Rain.
The writers on the shortlist were:
Georgia Minoa, Cyprus
Stephanie Constans, Lille, France
Jacqueline Winn, Possum Brush, NSW, Australia
Jane Branson, Horsham, West Sussex, England
May
The £100 first place prize went to Kate Daellenbach, of Wellington, New Zealand with The Parcel. The £25 highly commended prize went to Alexandra Apuzzo, of Clintondale, NY, United States, for I met a girl at 3 a.m.
The writers on the shortlist were:
Vincent Chu, Cologne, Germany
Kieran Duddy, London, England
Maurice Said. Siggiewi, Malta
Kathryn Clark, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
Miroslaw Henning, Radlin, Poland
Rebecca Dixon-Wright, Portsmouth, England
Mandy Huggins, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England
Rob Hawke
Ceri Lowe-Petraske, Bristol, England
April
The £100 first place prize went to a writer from Richmond, Surrey, England; The Journey to Hereafter, or Two Lives, was written by Charlotte Soares. Our £25 highly commended story was Ummi by Mark Shadwell of Dubai, in the UAE.
The writers on the shortlist were:
Liz Berg, Cornwall, England
Mike Woodhouse, Mittagong, NSW, Australia
Alen Kapidzic, Rijeka, Croatia
Gillian Brown, France
Dannielle Hedlund, Elbert, Colorado, United States
March
The £100 first place prize went to Lucy Bignall, of Pullenvale, Queensland, Australia, for Three Little Girls. The £25 highly commended prize went to Libby Thompson, of Darlington in County Durham, England, for Dreaming of White Sliced.
The writers on the shortlist were:
Annette Abraminko, Baden Wurtemburg, Germany
Maria Cray, Bergamo, Italy
Sue Dawes, Wivenhoe, Colchester, England
Virginie Tozzo, France
Six word competition winner named
The team at Inscribe judged our free six-word competition also run on our Facebook site (the set-up was ‘It’s the year 2013, add 2, 1 and 3 and you get six, six is the number of words in supposedly the finest flash fiction story ever written For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn (attributed to Hemingway but probably not by him). The challenge is a short story in six words).
The standard was high but in the end the £50 prize went to Mark Shadwell for
‘Facebook - daughter found. Friend request rejected’
We also particularly liked
‘Sale. Coffin . Due to time waster’ by Amanda Huggins
‘She waits patiently at his grave’ by Erin Gaven
Two from Anita Goodfellow. ‘Congratulations, Mrs Kray. Healthy twin boys’ and ‘Doesn’t Hannah look like her uncle’
Nurturing new talent through our e-books
A reminder that we have published seven e-books. All can be obtained by keying their titles into the search field of the Kindle shop at www.amazon.co.uk Australian readers will have to purchase via Amazon US at www.amazon.com
You can find more about the books on our website. They include the two latest to be published:
Lost Souls by Roger Barnes When young women start to go missing in Africa, an International Strike Force is assembled to rescue them and ensure the kidnappers are stopped.
Harry’s Torment by Michael Beck Set in the fictional east coast port of Thirlston and centred on investigators tackling the heroin trade.
Previously published were:
Cyber Rules by Myra King. The novel by Australian writer Myra tells the story of a farmer’s wife in isolated rural Australia. Caught up on the addictive side of the Internet, she holds a secret which may prove to be deadly.
Global Shorts - an anthology of short stories taken from the early years of the Global Short Competition.
Vegemite Whiskers - a selection of some of the finest writing from Australian authors who have entered the Global Short Story Competition.
White Gold by Roger Barnes A thriller by first-time author Roger Barnes taking the reader into a world of intrigue and danger set amid the poachers of Africa.
Haghir the Dragon Finder by John Dean, a comic fantasy for older children. Haghir
and his hopeless comrades are dragon slayers seeking a new challenge.
* If you don’t have a Kindle, there is a free Kindle reading app for your PC at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771
Mentoring and courses
You can also check out our new online writing courses and mentoring packages at http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/writing-courses---bespoke-mentoring.html
Contacting us
You can contact us as deangriss@btinternet.com
Thank you for all your support
John Dean
Inscribe Media
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